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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Continuing The Conversation

Last week Tucson-basedJessica Northey really impressed A&O clients on our latest bi-weekly client conference call, as she shared her expertise, taught us a lot about the "do's and don'ts" of Social Media Networking for Radio.

It's easy to mistake all this sharing and blogging as absolutes instead of what it really is, an ongoing dialog where new rules are constantly trumping old ones.

In that light, allow me to toss in the possibility that Jessica is "86% right" in our very enlightening exchange.

Two things she suggested raised caution flags for me.

Videos of the morning show (unless its compelling) can be an issue I'd try not to do. Of course, if it's truly incredible, there's nothing like Facebook to take something absolutely worldwide, but "broadcast" sparingly in social media, and engage generously. Don't find yourself with two million "likes" for all the wrong reasons, none of which grow your radio audience locally.

DO NOT update "Status" hourly on Facebook. It is self defeating. You won't make your target's news feed, since over posting drives down your score. If you want to post hourly or more often on Twitter, that's fine, since it usually leads to nothing.

It's not that I think Jessica is absolutely wrong, really, but it's just that I worry about folks taking this advice too literally, feeling that they have quotas to meet and thus damaging their efforts.

Sadly, most of the online content produced by the average radio station doesn't compete very successfully outside their current, small, group of 'friends.'

19 comments:

Thanks Jaye! I think there was a misunderstanding about what I said regarding Facebook! I would never suggest to update Facebook hourly, in fact I would block someone who did! LOLI actually said: 4.) Don't tweet every few days. Do it every few hours!!!! As for Facebook update, a few times a day at most and at least daily. Keep your station Social Media profiles live and up-dated.

As for the video...I will give you that one. It is not something that CMR has embraced yet but I see it in the future. I am still trying to dabble in it myself!

Again, I am so honored to have been a part of your call! You are amazing!!!

Although this is a good post and I am a big Jessica Northey fan who respects her, this is clearly a misquote. I think you should acknowledge that you misquoted Ms. Northey and fix this post. In Ms. Northey's comment above she clarified the issue and even agreed with your video assessment. She showed true class and swallowed her pride. Please do the right thing and do the same. Thank you!

Jessica is absolutey correct! If you want to really get the true benefits of twitter (and there are many) tweet often and daily. As for facebook, correct again Jessica! Get on facebook and provide updates that your audience can digest without being inundated.

Um.. .. .. Hi! I'm @LoriMoreno and all I can say is, Have you seen Jessica's work? Her happy and increasingly successful clients, due to a large extent, to their amazing talent and Jessica's Social Media expertise, are a testament to the success in what she teaches and practices.... #justsayin'

I am not sure why you would misquote someone in an article...it seems that if one is to write about someone else, they should go the extra mile and make sure that what they say is accurate...I know that Jessica has a lot of experience in this area and would never say to post that often on FB...so it makes me wonder about the other things that were said in your article...It takes away from the credibility of the entire article. Please write responsibly…

As a radio DJ host for an internet radio station, I tweet while I am on the air @ about 20 tweets/Retweets an hour. I do happen to have over 122,000 followers. I stir up quite a bit of real time interaction and controversy. Furthermore, these actions promote the show and the station. I also post about once an hour on Facebook. I have had nothing but positive feedback from these actions. I do admit that this is experimental on my part to do this, however I have gained more sponsors resulting in more revenue from these actions, so I will continue to do what I do best! Tweet Tweet Tweet and Tweet some more! PS: Those that I annoy, can just block me .. I don't give a damn! .. IT SIMPLY WORKS!

I am alarmed that you would ask someone of Jessica's caliber to speak onyour behalf to these stations and then turn around and grosslymisquote her and not offer to correct or to respond to her comment. I think that you owe it to Jessica to let people know that you misquoted her. I'm one of Jessica's clients and she is one smart cookie. Her advice has been nothing short of brilliant and a tremendous help to me.

I was hoping that Jessica saying that I misquoted her and publishing that on my blog would be sufficient to set aside any confusion I created, but it appears that misquoting a social media expert has it own costs in the age of everything being out there and open to everyone.

If an apology is what you want, folks, here goes: my sincere and heartfelt apologies. I did not mean to diminish Jessica in any way by riffing on her posts and terrific hour spent with A&O clients.

I just wanted to continue the conversation, and I guess that these comments ultimately prove my point at my own expense about being famous in social media with "two million people" for the wrong reasons.

Breakfast Blog seldom attracts the number of comments that this single post has and my hope is that the entire dialog has been helpful to all concerned.

2 cents = I know you well enough there was nothing malicious or incompetent with your blog. Jessica cleared it up rather well.

2 cents = I don't do Twitter, it never really caught on for me, but I am a Facebook junkie. I "like" a lot of radio stations across the country of all formats. Most of them do it very poorly. I want these stations to be my friends. I want to be engaged from my personal friends as well as radio stations. Constant reminders of car dealer remote broadcasts and that so-and-so "is on the air next taking your requests" is not compelling. And any status update that informs we are "x" number of fans away from some huge milestone number of fans will almost always cause me to "unlike" that station.

I read the Radio-Only Social Media article for Sat on FTC and she says one thing that stands out, like Jack Palance (Curly) in City Slickers - there's only 1 thing: A Fan page is to build the brand, they get a chance (user's) to help build your brand by communicating with other "friends" or users about how they like you and support you.

I am a HUGE Jessica Northey fan, and I was hoping you (Jaye) would do the right thing, which you have. Thank you for your correction comment.

She is one of the few people in social media that approaches it from a fresh and very creative perspective. As a result, she has built a loyal following of leaders around the globe, and you have seen a small taste of that here. Nobody can deny she is as effective as it gets. Best wishes.

the most important part of jaye's post, one which i'm sure ms. northey would agree with, are the final three words."better is better"posting for the sake of posting or to fulfill some arbitrary quota is useless. just like cracking the mic just because there's an 18sx intro and you KNOW you can hit the vocal.who cares?we seem a little hung-up on the whole "broadcasting" thing. throwing stuff out there because WE controlled the mic button. we cannot "broadcast" anymore. whether on air on online we succeed when we engage listeners with truly relevant content. ever work with someone who just wouldn't shut up? they stop by your office or the control room and start yammering away about stuff which is so painfully boring and self-centered that you feel like eating a bullet? yeah. let's NOT be that guy.facebook can be a wonderful tool to grow audience & loyalty if used properly.better IS better.